Título: | NETWORK SIMULATOR FOR TWO-PHASE DISPLACEMENT IN CONSTRICTED CAPILLARY CHANNELS | ||||||||||||
Autor: |
MARTHA SALLES FRANCA |
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Colaborador(es): |
MARCIO DA SILVEIRA CARVALHO - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 24/JAN/2018 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||
Notas: |
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Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=32789&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=32789&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.32789 | ||||||||||||
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Understanding the mechanisms and transport phenomena of multiphase
flow in porous media has great relevance in several practical applications,
such as capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide, transport in fuel
cells and enhancement hydrocarbon recovery. The geometry of pore space
and the fluid interactions with the solid determine macroscopic properties
such as porosity, relative permeabilities and capillary pressure. However,
microscopic analysis provides a better description and comprehension of
physical and chemical processes of fluid flow in the pore space. In this work,
we developed a pore-network simulator to analyze immiscible two-phase flow
for both drainage and imbibition processes. The 240×40 pore-network model
has constricted capillary channels with radius on the order of 52.35 micrometer. Flow
patterns and displacement efficiencies evaluation were obtained at different
viscosity ratios and capillary numbers. The results, considering piston-like
displacement, were similar to experiments realized previously, injecting water
in an oil saturated medium. In the drainage process, the oil saturation
reduces with increasing capillary number. The observed flow pattern is viscous
fingerings and the front is stable with the higher viscosity ratio. In
imbibition, the flow was dominated by capillary fingers at low capillary
numbers. At high capillary numbers, viscous fingers were predominant and,
with increasing viscosity ratio, the front presented higher stability.
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